Chichi to Kuraseba
The Face of Jizo
- Release Date
- July, 31st, 2004
- Running Time
- 99 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- MIYAZAWA Rie ── Fukuyoshi Mitsue
- HARADA Yoshio ── Fukuyoshi Takezou
- ASANO Tadanobu ── Mr. Kinoshita
[ Staff ]
- SUZUKI Tatsuo ── Cinematography
- KIMURA Takeo ── Art Director
- MATSUMURA Teizo ── Music
[ Production Company ]
Eisei Gekijo, BANDAI VISUAL, NIHON SKY WAY, TV TOKYO MEDIANET, Aoi Advertising Promotion, PAL Entertainments Production
[ Story ]
In Hiroshima in 1948, memories of the atomic bombing three years earlier are still fresh in the minds of the people. Mitsue (Miyazawa Rie) works at a library where she meets Mr. Kinoshita (Asano Tadanobu), a shy, young man researching the disaster. They grow close, and Mr. Kinoshita eventually asks for her hand in marriage. However, Mitsue is troubled by her memories of the bombing when she was unable to save her father, Takezo (Harada Yoshio), and her closest friends as well as the many others who lost their lives. She doubts whether she deserves to have survived. Then the spirit of her father appears before her, and asserts that she should be happy. Watching over her budding romance with Mr. Kinoshita, Takezo cajoles and encourages Mitsue into opening her heart again.
The third in veteran director Kuroki Kazuo's (Tomorrow, Kirishima 1945) trilogy of films set in wartime Japan.
[ Contact (International) ]
PAL Entertainments Production
2F, 1-13-8 Yanagibashi, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0052
Rep: SUZUKI Wataru
Attn: YAMADA Chie
tel: +81 3 3866 5031
fax: +81 3 3866 5032
E-mail: pal@pal-ep.com
http://www.pal-ep.com
